What is avast! Ad Blocker? (from AVAST Software)
Avast! Ad Blocker blocks all annoying ads on the web by default: video ads on YouTube, Facebook ads, flashy banners, pop-ups, pop-unders and much more.
Overview
Avast! Ad Blocker is a software program developed by AVAST Software. It adds a Browser Helper Object (BHO) to Internet Explorer. The setup package generally installs about 6 files and is usually about 1.09 MB (1,138,688 bytes). Relative to the overall usage of users who have this installed on their PCs, most are running Windows 7 (SP1) and Windows 10. While about 40% of users of avast! Ad Blocker comes from the United States, it is also popular in France and Germany.
Does Avast really has need to offer Ad Blocker with its antivirus?
You can only find this as extension installed in Chrome browser if you’ve installed it cleanly. As Chrome blocks silent extension install of Ad Blocker by Avast you need to explicitly allow and enable it by visiting Chrome://extensions page.
You can click on Avast Ad Blocker’s icon on Chrome toolbar to have access to its options, which lets you select your default language. You can whitelist some websites to allow ads, click on “Manage” button and add list of websites one by one for which you want to disable ad blocking.
Since Adblock Plus developer has allowed to non-obtrusive ads on websites to skip through his extension, these “acceptable ads” are enabled by default for Avast Ad blocking extension also. You can find the option to deactivate these on the extension’s options page.
Adblock Plus or Ad Blocker by Avast which to use in Google Chrome or on other browsers?
To see ad blocking functionality of Avast extension you need to disable Adblock plus on Chrome. We’ve found Ad Blocker as effective and equivalent to ABP.
How do I remove avast! Ad Blocker?
Quickly and completely remove avast! Ad Blocker from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window’s Control Panel.
- On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen’s bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8: Click Uninstall a Program.
- Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
- When you find the program avast! Ad Blocker, click it, and then do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8: Click Uninstall.
- Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
- Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove avast! Ad Blocker.
How do I reset my web browser?
If your web browser homepage and search settings have been modified by avast! Ad Blocker you can restore them to their previous default settings.